Josquin des Prez's masses are works of towering genius, notable for the purity and expressiveness of their musical language. One late mass, probably composed around 1514, is the four-voice Missa Pange ...

The mass was the first big form in Western music. The fifteenth-century theorist and composer Johannes Tinctoris called it the cantus magnus, or “great song.” In its standard structure, it consisted ...

It was through this policy that we came to make our first Josquin disc. In 1986, when we recorded the most celebrated of all his mass-settings, the Missa Pange lingua, it was a wide-open field, and ...

As a Renaissance specialist I have always put Josquin at the centre of my musical world. To have the opportunity to perform any of his music is the greatest privilege, but his masses represent ...

As we approach the holiday season of an annus horribilis, it can be comforting to remind ourselves that centuries ago we humans created ineffably beautiful and lasting works of art to celebrate our ...

STEVE JOHNSON picks his favourites from the many memorable albums of the year, and one stunning new festival FRENCHMAN Josquin des Prez — more commonly known as Josquin and regarded as one of the most ...

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The singer and composer Josquin Desprez traversed his time like a diffident ghost, glimpsed here and there amid the splendor of the Renaissance. He is thought to have been born around 1450 in what is ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Centuries after his death, Josquin des Prez’s achievements as a musical “magician-mathematician” remain stunning. By Zachary Woolfe For the 250th ...

How did a single composer come to tower over the intellectual and cultural landscape of present-day musicology? How, when, and why did Josquin acquire this status and celebrity as the incomparable ...